Shaidle Panics?

Looks like she's trying to send some of the links to her "outrageous" comments down the memory hole. From the list, so far

On Indians: they are “parasites” who “extorted tax dollars [for] booze, smokes and junk food. Not to mention free everything else, including university educations they don't bother getting.”

· On Sikhs: "Backward foreigners [who] shit on hand that feeds them...Unable to invent their own iconic product due to too much time spent worshipping monkeys and cows, setting women on fire and obsessing over imperceptible differences in each other's skin colour..."

Her scheduled appearance in London has started a similar battle in the blogosphere. Many of the blogs state the event is organized by the London Jewish Federation.

The federation's executive director, Esther Marcus, said yesterday she was asked by organizers of the event to book the Jewish Community Centre.

That was the extent of her involvement and, in any case, the organizers are now looking at another location, Marcus said. The federation is not a sponsor of the event, she said.

The piece also notes that, Alan Perlmutter, one of the event's organizers, is having second thoughts.

The most important thing to come from this relates to how a figure gets labelled "controversial" in wikipedia. Details as to how it would work in Shaidle's case can be found here, but the upshot appears to be, if I understand correctly, that a MSM piece (like the one above) quoting her more "outrageous" statements should make it easier for a catalog of such statements to appear as part of her main wiki entry. Thus anyone considering booking Shaidle for a speaking event/tv appearance will find them in the course of doing their due diligence research.

Controversial right-wing blogger invited to speak at London eventSome members of the city's Jewish community have brought in speakers critical of anti-hate lawsBy RANDY RICHMOND

She has called Muslims "pathetic, whiny losers" who practise "a sick, sick religion." She has accused Asians of spreading disease in Toronto, disparaged natives and blacks, and suggested the poor "are no more real than Bigfoot." Now, controversial right-wing blogger Kathy Shaidle may be coming to London to speak about human rights. The invitation to Shaidle by some members of the city's Jewish community has alarmed anti-racism activists and provided fresh ammunition to the country's heavyweight politicos over freedom of speech. "She is a purveyor of some of the most offensive racial stereotypes I have ever read," Bernie Farber, head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said yesterday. "Any group that associates with or defends her is diminished by her," charged Warren Kinsella, Liberal insider and author of Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network. "They shouldn't have anything to do with her. They will just hurt themselves." The controversy has the organizer of the event promising to look further into Shaidle's comments. "If they are true, I will have nothing to do with her," said Alan Perlmutter, a Jewish activist in London. But, he added, "I am not going to cancel her until we can cut through all the smoke and see what is being said." Shaidle vows to show up at the April 13 event at a location still to be determined. "I will not be intimidated. I am not going to apologize about anything I have written," she told The Free Press yesterday. "This is a goofy smear campaign by name-calling leftists." Shaidle and fellow conservatives Ezra Levant and London's Salim Mansur have been invited to talk about the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The three are critical of the commission and Canada's anti-hate laws, saying the laws stifle freedom of expression. Shaidle recently co-authored The Tyranny of Nice, How Canada Crushes Freedom in the name of Human Rights and comments regularly on her blog, Five Feet of Fury. Her appearance last month on the taxpayer-funded TVO led to an online battle between political enthusiasts and ordinary viewers. Her scheduled appearance in London has started a similar battle in the blogosphere. Many of the blogs state the event is organized by the London Jewish Federation. The federation's executive director, Esther Marcus, said yesterday she was asked by organizers of the event to book the Jewish Community Centre. That was the extent of her involvement and, in any case, the organizers are now looking at another location, Marcus said. The federation is not a sponsor of the event, she said.

Any regular readers of this web site won't be surprised by any of the offensive racial stereotypes conjured up, day after day, by Kathy Shaidle. I've documented plenty of examples of her bigotry. So have others; it's all there in Google.

What Shaidle says, sadly, isn't surprising anymore. What is surprising is this: why have reputable organizations recently considered it acceptable to give legitimacy to her brand of hate? More than that - why have these organizations actually defended her bigotry?

There are three.

One is Steve Paikin's TVO. On his TVO blog, Paikin said that Shaidle is “respectful, opinionated.” Even after learning about her racist “opinions,” even after many, many taxpayers objected, Paikin insisted on having her on his show. That’s his right, I suppose. As taxpayers, it is equally our right to object to that.

Another example is found with a prominent Jewish advocacy organization (which I cannot name due to anticipated legal action). I have seen a statement from the organization's chief lobbyist in which he blithely dismisses the concerns about Shaidle – even after it is specifically brought to his attention that the infamous blogger calls Sikhs “backward foreigners” and Muslim children “parasites” – and in which he says “he would proceed” with a decision to invite Shaidle on an all-expenses-paid junket. According to her, “they're determined to have me be part of it.”

The third example, and most seriously, is the governing Conservative Party of Canada. In recent days, MPs Lois Brown, Daryl Kramp and others have angrily defended Shaidle in the House of Commons. Brown has even said it was "outrageous" to simply object to giving a platform to someone who calls Muslims and natives "parasites." As Shaidle does.

Is that what Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party thinks, now? That it is “outrageous” to protest calling Muslims and native Canadians “parasites?” What do Wajid Khan and Leona Aglukkaq think about that?

When I spoke to the London Free Press reporter yesterday, I said that it was simply tragic that a writer with Kathy Shaidle’s early promise would embrace bumper-sticker racism, in exchange for some web traffic, and to facilitate the sales of a couple self-published books.

What is even more tragic, however, is that reputable people and organizations have chosen to give her legitimacy. By doing so, they diminish their own reputations – and that, of course, is the greatest tragedy of all.

13. (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.

Three Easy Steps to file a Section 13 complaint against Kathy Shaidle:

Copy and Paste the Following information into a Word document and print it.

Kathy Shaidle is discriminating against persons or groups of persons on the basis of race, colour, sexual orientation and national or ethnic origin by repeatedly communicating or causing to be communicated, messages through the Internet which would likely expose Muslims, Pakistanis, Islam, Indians, Blacks, Jamaicans, Sikhs, Blind and Chinese to hatred and/or contempt, contrary to section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

DATE OF THE ALLEGED CONDUCT:

February 15, 2009 and ongoing on the websites http://www.fivefeetoffury.com and http://relapsedcatholic.blogspot.com

PARTICULARS:

Kathy Shaidle maintains multiple websites in Canada, and is a virulent poster of material in violation of Section 13.

The following are examples of material in violation of Section 13 of the CHRA

On Muslim and Pakistani immigrants: "Muslims...most of them can't even read...What we really need to do is stop immigration from Pakistan and other crazy Muslim countries filled with illiterate, violent tribal peasants..."

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-02-13-0015/

On Muslim children: they are “parasites.”

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-02-24-0004/

On a group of Muslim students who object to some statements by Mark Steyn: they are “motherfucking parasites.”

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-03-28-0002/

On Muslims: "Muslims always have to be on top, in reverse proportion to their ability to do anything with competence or creativity."

http://shaidle.blogmatrix.com/:entry:shaidle-2007-09-02-0012/

On Indians: they are “parasites” who “extorted tax dollars [for] booze, smokes and junk food. Not to mention free everything else, including university educations they don't bother getting.”

http://shaidle.blogmatrix.com/:entry:shaidle-2007-01-19-0005/

On blacks: “…there is nothing ‘compelling’ about a black man impregnating a white woman. In more than one Toronto neighbourhood, that's what they call Saturday night.”

On Jamaicans: “Just think of how much Jamaican immigrants contribute to our culture and economy: monotonous, illiterate music that all sounds the same, filthy hairstyles, those little tricoloured Rasta doohickies.”

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2007-12-20-0024/

On the blacks of New Orleans: they are “pathetic losers” who cannot have their IQs raised “a single point.”

On AIDS: “From the beginning, AIDS activism has been more about mainstreaming the gay "lifestyle" than saving lives.”

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-04-03-0013/

On Sikhs: "Backward foreigners [who] shit on hand that feeds them...Unable to invent their own iconic product due to too much time spent worshipping monkeys and cows, setting women on fire and obsessing over imperceptible differences in each other's skin colour..."

http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2008-03-27-0006/

On blind people: "Giving blind people real jobs...is not working out."

Based on the foregoing examples, I believe thatKathy Shaidle is discriminating against persons or groups of persons on the basis of Race, colour, sexual orientation and national or ethnic origin by repeatedly communicating or causing to be communicated, messages through the internet that would likely expose Muslims, Pakistanis, Islam, Indians, Blacks, Jamaicans, Sikhs, Blind and Chinese to hatred and/or contempt, contrary to section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Five Feet of Far Right is on TVOs "The Agenda" this evening, because presumably they couldn't find someone non-crazy to duscuss "atheist bus posters". Kinsella amply illustrates why Ms. Shaidle's blithering isn't fit for a men's room wall, let alone a television show funded by Ontario tax-payers. I might also add that Shaidle has been published a couple of times in Vdare, a U.S. based "extremist anti-immigration Web site" (according to the NY Times).

Hopefully, WK will post contact information re the minister responsible for TVO. Meanwhile, it seems that "The Agenda" itself may be contactable through its blogs here. If don't to see your hard earned dough funding Hate Lit, or if alternatively the idea of denying the fat chick money appeals to you, you might want to drop Mr. Paiken a line.

"Today, in the London Free Press, Randy Richmond exposes Shaidle's racist views and sounds the alarm on Five Tons of Fury's invitation to speak in that city on the issue of human rights "Maxwell Devlin, Blogger